Customer Reviews

Dora the Explorer Electronic Bingo Game

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I just bought this game a week ago and my 2 and 3 year old children just love it and they are already learning to say words in spanish! I would like to know if there are more backpack cards for the game if anyone knows please post it thanks

After seeing several commercials for this toy, I bought it and was a bit disappointed. My daughter loves it, however, for the $ I thought there would be more backpack games to play. The game only comes with 2, so you have to play the same ones over and over.

My daughter who turned 3 in September has had this game for about 6 months. We had a very hard time finding games she could play because she is a very hyper little girl who won't stay at one activity for long. However she really loves this game and we play it almost every single day.

Overall I think everything about it is durable, I've had no problems with Dora falling off. Another great thing is the bingo chips and the cards are all stored right there in one piece which is great.

This is very easy for a small child to get the hang of. If you miss a call you can press repeat and it also shows up on the "backpack card" so you can see what you may have missed. My daughter loves trying to repeat the spanish phrases and adores getting bingo and singing and dancing "We Did It" with Dora each time she wins.

The one and only complaint I could come up with is like someone else mentioned there are only two different versions of bingo, there's a side with colors and another side with animals. This can get boring very quickly. It would be nice to have different cards.

All in all it's a great starter game that dora fans will love.

EDIT- Now years after the first review we are have had our third child and are currently enjoying this game with our 2 year old son! Yes even a two year old can play it. At first he could only do the animal side with help but now at two and a half he can even do the color side all by himself and feels like such a big boy! This is a wonderful young child's game. Again only complaint is I wish there were more card choices as it gets old when you have to play about 1000 rounds of this!!

My almost 3 year old recieved this as a Christmas gift. It is really cute, but really loud. The only major complaint I have about this is it does not have a volume control switch (none of the Dora toys we have do). The chips are conviently kept in the bottom of the toy and the cards are in the back in "backpack". Dora says the English word first and then says it in Spanish. You can not bingo with less than 4-5 items called. She doesn't sing the "We did it!" song when you bingo, but her theme sound. This was a slight disapointment to my daughter, but other than that she loves the toy.

I only wish they had more cards for it. After a year of playing it..its a touch boring because of the lack of cards

As a speech-language pathologist and mother of two, I was appalled by the deafening noise level of this game. I actually had seen this game tested on the news in a story on dangerous toys. This game tested with a noise level that can cause permanent damage to your hearing. My daughter received this as a gift so we decided to give it a shot anyway. My daughter's reaction was "Mommy, that's too loud" as she covered her ears. I asked her if she wanted to take it back to the store and she said yes. Again, as a slp I am not a fan of battery-operated toys anyway b/c they limit your child's imagination and can hinder speech and language development, but this game is simply too loud. I will be filing a complaint with the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

I was a little wary when my 2 1/2 year old received this game last holiday season, but she loves it! My other daughter (age 4 1/2) and I get together with her to play and have a good time learning the names of the animals and the colors in spanish.

We bought this game for our 3 year old daughter & she loves it. It's a fun game for her to play alone or with others.

My kids love this game! My 3 year old quickly learned the color names in spanish...I was amazed! This is an awesome game...I only wish it offered more cards.

We got this toy for my three year old (who loves Dora) at Christmas time. She, my five year old, usually me, leep-over guests, and/oreighbors play it almost every day. Everything is stored there-the chips in a compartment under the game itself, and the cards in back. The Dora figure does tend to fall off, but it isn't neccessary to play the game, nor has that bothered any of the kids. I guess you could glue it. We have lost a couple of tokens, but they can be replaced with regular bingo chips or about anything else for that matter. The cards are quite durable; we had one that sat in water on the table for a while, and, while it is a little warped, it is still fine to use. My sister, who is deaf can play this with them, too, because after Dora says the word, the picture lights up on the board-also good for keeping up in he game. Not to mention that Dora will repeat herself if you push that button. It has two modes of play, and she will dance and sing when someone presses the win button. Also good for my competetive children is the fact that sometimes they will both bingo. Then they both win. They love that.Not the best tool for teaching Spanish, however, but if you are looking to just have fun with your kids-it is worth it!